And for two teams, there was a celebration for the final prep-level game of their players’ lives.

In the case of the South, the celebration was a slightly bigger one.

Pleasant Valley’s Matt Henderson earned MVP honors of the Bob Busch Classic, the annual Chico Breakfast Lions baseball senior all-star game, and six pitchers combined on a dominant four-hitter as the South defeated the North 14-1 on Saturday night at Doryland Field.

Divisions I through VI all had a say in the clubbing for the South, though the two players who call Doryland home sure looked the most comfortable.

Henderson, starting at shortstop alongside third baseman and PV teammate Michael Sanderson, had two hits, scored two runs, stole two bases and shone defensively and Sanderson was 2 for 3 with a two-run double.

?I hadn’t seen lot of these guys, but in the practices we’ve had, I was really confident in what we had coming in,? Henderson said.

?There’s a lot of D-I players (on the North team), and it was surprising to me to see our lower divisions pulling through for us. It was awesome.?

Most demonstrative of that was South starter Chad Perry of Marysville, who tossed two scoreless innings to open the game before he added two hits in as many at-bats, including a big tworun double that was part of a seven-run seventh inning for the hosts.

Willows outfielder Clark Love opened the scoring in the first, yanking a two-run double inside the first base bag against Fall River’s Sterling Humphry.

Love was 2 for 3 with three RBIs and also drew a walk.

With all the decorum the North’s mighty roster can boast ? the best players from the Northern Section Division I champions and runners-up, three alone from powerhouse Foothill and hard-throwing lefty Joey Beck of Lassen ? the game reached laugher status by the fifth inning, when a four-run outburst keyed by an RBI single from Chico’s Clayton Schuler made it 4- 0. Oroville’s Bodie Marikas, who reached base three times in four appearances, was hit by a pitch to make it 6-0.

?When you see those guys you’re always competing against, you get other guys from the area you can compete with too,? Henderson said of playing alongside typical Eastern Athletic League foes.

?It was a cool thing to see a collective effort.?

But it wasn’t just the EAL that was well-represented; along with Love’s feats in the purple of Willows and the masterful work on the mound from the Indians’ Perry, the Hamilton duo of Adolfo Diaz and Dylan Shippelhoute also did its school proud: Each singled off Foothill stud pitcher Colton Landreth, with Diaz’s knock driving in a run, and Shippelhoute added a perfect ninth to cap it all off.

It truly was a composite performance by Hogan Brown’s roster, and the Hamilton skipper seemed to put everyone in the perfect spot to succeed.

Granted, with the lightest of substitution and batting order rules being ?enforced,? he had the freedom to do so ? Sanderson came back to deliver his two-run double well after he’d been pinch-hit for, as just one example ? but his players banded together all the same, avenging last year’s North victory.

——— Sports Editor Andre Byik can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 111 or at sports@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @TehamaSports